http://www.d-toolsblog.com a view from the top Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:21:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/dtools-media-environment-design-team-offer-inbooth-si55-training-cedia-expo/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/dtools-media-environment-design-team-offer-inbooth-si55-training-cedia-expo/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:11:16 +0000 Jill Reddy http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=5629 D-Tools Certified Partner, MED, will host 2 60 minute training courses in D-Tool’s Booth #2020 during CEDIA D-Tools Inc. today announced that Certified Partner Ryan Brown of Media Environment Design (MED) will teach (2) 60 minute ...]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/dtools-media-environment-design-team-offer-inbooth-si55-training-cedia-expo/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/offpage-refrence-shape/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/offpage-refrence-shape/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:54:07 +0000 Senos http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=5594 This question often arises:  What is the best way to handle off-page references when dealing with multiple Schematic pages. Occasionally you may run out of space on a schematic page and need to continue ...]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/offpage-refrence-shape/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/proposal-ready-data/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/proposal-ready-data/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:11:09 +0000 Randy Bownds http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=5525 D-Tools publishes two quality levels of data: proposal ready and complete. What is the difference? Stated simply, proposal ready data includes the most basic data needed to quickly produce a quote and win the job. ...]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/proposal-ready-data/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/additional-wire-shape/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/additional-wire-shape/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:38:09 +0000 Steve Collard http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=5559 This Finish Wire shape is very similar to our Beta wire shape that shows the ComponentID at both ends. The additional function of this shape is that the line pattern and color of the shape is determined by the Type field of the wire product.]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/additional-wire-shape/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/data-services-2010/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/data-services-2010/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:50:05 +0000 Randy Bownds http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=5506 Welcome to a new era for data services at D-Tools! Back in January, our CEO Adam Stone took a hard look at how we collect, publish, and manage data for our MVP and Data Subscription ...]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/data-services-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/cool-finish-wire-shape/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/cool-finish-wire-shape/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:26:32 +0000 Steve Collard http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=5484 A couple of our rather creative team members have created a great wire shape for Visio that displays the ComponentID at both ends of the wire]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/cool-finish-wire-shape/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/drag-drop-images-si55-sp2/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/drag-drop-images-si55-sp2/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:06:21 +0000 Steve Collard http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=5319 There are several new features in SI5.5 SP2 that I am really excited about, in this post I will describe a few of them.  We have added the ability to drag and drop images and ...]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/d-tools-news/drag-drop-images-si55-sp2/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/prefilter-items-option-55-reporting/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/prefilter-items-option-55-reporting/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:20:57 +0000 Ryan Brown http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=4718 I’ve been getting a lot of calls recently about a particular issue with Si 5.5 reporting. I should clarify it’s not exactly an ‘issue’ per se, (there is a very easy resolution – just ...]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/prefilter-items-option-55-reporting/feed/ 0 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/moving-server-si55/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/moving-server-si55/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:42:14 +0000 Steve Collard http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=4614 Moving a Server is easy in SI5.5.]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/moving-server-si55/feed/ 1 http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/projects-wont-open-text-interface/ http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/projects-wont-open-text-interface/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:17:05 +0000 Senos http://www.d-toolsblog.com/?p=4362 Issue: You attempt to open an SI5.5 project in the Text interface and the interface does not open.  No error, just nothing happens…crickets. Cause: This can occur on machines that are running both SI 4 and ...]]> http://www.d-toolsblog.com/newsletter/projects-wont-open-text-interface/feed/ 0